| KCM, honest mistake, i figured that's why you thought that. But, I agree with you, as do many others I've talked too. The main reason they put all 4 why not dodge projects together back in 97 was because they knew they could never pass all four projects on thier own. I think they figured that if each voter wanted one of the four projects, they'd vote yes for it. The two biggest things that helped pass it were the "Dirt" track, and the Civic Center upgrades. I think these two would have passed on thier own, especailly with them promising a dirt track, even though the proposal was written so they could decide on what it was after it was voted in. Anyway, back to my original thought, many people didn't really want, or thought we needed the extra ball fields, or the event's center. Now, 8+ years later, people are tired of the bs, they simply think we don't need it, and are tired of all the arguing.
One solution I can think of, seems simple, so therefore, they won't do it.
1. Put the events center to a public vote to see if we still want it. Not location, no trickey wording, just yes of no, do you want it. If yes, build it, if no, then don't.
2. Sell the race track. The only way it'll make us any money is to sell it, and collect property tax on it. Give them a tax abatement it you have to, just be smart about it. No more than 5 years or so. Not a permanent like Excel has.
3. Vote to rescind the tax.
4. Then vote on how to use the tax. After paying off debts attributed to the projects we could vote to fund the remaining projects, ball fields, and upgrades to the Civic Center, which were never completed correctly to begin with. Or, use them to fund current projects and to help ease property taxes.
There's a lot of money in an account somewhere that could seriously help the residents of this community, and if no help is offered, there won't be any residents left in this community. |